Highfill v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Nesselrode v. Executive Beechcraft, Inc. (1986), Bayne v. Jenkins (1980)
48 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad · Branstetter v. Gerdeman · Annin v. Jackson · Rose v. Thompson · Jackson v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the instruction was erroneous and, therefore, prejudicial was a question of law to be determined upon the record presented. No fact question was involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuzuf v. Gebhardt
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.